Evaluation: 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film does not really challenge horror/slasher genre, it sticks to the tried and tested conventions of horror movies. One of these conventions include darkness, this creates enigma by only allowing the audience to see exactly what we want. The characters that we used mostly stick to the normal conventions of the slasher/horror genre. We have a killer dressed in black clothing and a hood, this is used extensively throughout the genre, we use this to create Barthe's enigma code. He contrasts with the victim who seems relatively feminine in contrast to the usual male victims in the horror genre. The only way that our film challenges the normal conventions of a horror/slasher movie is in the way that our victim is male. Seeing a male victim in a slasher movie is unusual so here we are showing emergent ideology.

Our opening can be easily identified as it uses many of the conventions of a horror movie. The red bold text fading in and out of a black background is typical of a horror movie and is used extensively in the genre. The sinister sounding music over the credits is almost always used in horror movies, when not used it can create a sense of tension. A slow pace of editing is also used in out opening to create tension, this is typical of the horror genre. It then speeds up when the victim sees the murderer, this creates a sense of panic, fast paced editing is featured in almost every horror movie.